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As details of the Green New Deal begin to emerge, it may lead to
doom for the Democrats in 2020, American Enterprise Institute
senior fellow Marc Thiessen argued Friday.

This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed
Markey, D-Mass., debuted their blueprint for a broad economic
and environmental agenda that has been widely embraced by
several 2020 candidates.

During the "Special Report" All-Star” panel, Thiessen -- along
with Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Matthew Continetti
and Washington Post opinion writer Charles Lane -- weighed on
how the Green New Deal may affect both parties in upcoming
elections.

Thiessen began by declaring that Ocasio-Cortez is the “greatest
thing that ever happened to Donald Trump and the Republican
Party.”

“She is going to make the Democrats unelectable in 2020 by going
down this path. The Democrats want to take your car, they want
to take your house, they want to take health insurance, they
want to take your air travel, and they even want to take away
your hamburgers. That is the platform on which they are going to
be running in 2020,” Thiessen told the panel. “The Republicans
are going to wrap this around the Democrats’ necks like an
albatross and ride it into the next election.”

"The Democrats want to take your car, they want to take your
house, they want to take health insurance, they want to take
your air travel, and they even want to take away your
hamburgers."

— Marc Thiessen, senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Lane expressed that it’s a “little overstated” for the Green New
Deal to be a political dream for the GOP because the phrase
itself polls pretty well, but conceded that Democrats who get
behind the resolution will have to “defend a lot of hard-to-
defend things.”

Meanwhile, Continetti told the panel that the Green New Deal may
be “popular in the abstract” but will be “unpopular in the
specifics.”

“I think it is intellectually dishonest because you have these
grand plans, but you forswear nuclear power. There’s no way that
we can even make a huge dent in our carbon emissions without
embracing nuclear,” Continetti said. “There’s a sentence in
Ocasio-Cortez’s document where she writes, ‘We’re going to
guarantee economic security to people unable or unwilling to
work.’ That would overturn the entirety of the American welfare
state beginning with the New Deal. We’ve always provided for
people who were incapable of working. She wants to say, ‘No, it
doesn’t matter whether you’re capable or not. If you don’t want
to work, we’ll take care of you anyway.’ This is a radical plan.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-and-green-new- deal-will-make-dems-unelectable-marc-thiessen
 

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